Scientists are finding more evidence that birdsong parallels human-made music.
Category: Music
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Turning 100, the New Jersey Symphony Sticks to Home
The orchestra could have rented Carnegie Hall for the celebration, but “our supporters are here, our audiences are here,” its chief executive said.
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Kaija Saariaho’s Luminous Music Was a Personal Invitation
The Finnish composer, who died at 70, is remembered by one of her longtime collaborators.
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Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity
The beloved tenor’s latest book and album emerged from a time when the pandemic forced him to question what exactly he does when he sings.
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‘Maestra’ Shows the Power of Women on the Concert Podium
The director of “Maestra,” Maggie Contreras, discusses making the documentary and the challenges faced by women in classical music.
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Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works
This poetic composer, who died on Friday, wrote indelible, simmering operas, concertos, orchestral explosions, choral meditations and solos.
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Kaija Saariaho, Pathbreaking Composer, Is Dead at 70
She brought new colors to modernist music, sometimes using electronics, and became the first female living composer to have two operas staged by the Met.
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Review: Julia Wolfe’s ‘unEarth’ Is Crowded Out by Multimedia
Not for the first time this season at the New York Philharmonic, a premiere was muddled by obvious, sometimes intrusive video art.
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The North to Shore Festival Comes to New Jersey
A new arts festival featuring local and marquee-name talent is coming to the Garden State.
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The Composer Julia Wolfe Focuses on Climate in ‘unEarth’
Julia Wolfe’s latest in a series of increasingly political, oratorio-like works, “unEarth,” premieres this week at the New York Philharmonic.
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Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart
Jonathon Heyward will succeed Louis Langrée as music director of the center’s revered summer ensemble.
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Departures Force Los Angeles Philharmonic to Reinvent Itself, Again
Its beloved music director, Gustavo Dudamel, is leaving for New York, and its innovative chief executive, Chad Smith, is going to Boston. Now the esteemed orchestra is pondering what’s next.